Principal Investigator

Mark Tester
  • Professor, Plant Science;
  • Chair, Center of Excellence for Sustainable Food Security
  • Director (Interim), KAUST’s Food Mission

Research Interests: Salinity tolerance, Ion transport, Crop science, Plant physiology

Research Scientists

Yveline Pailles

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Plant genetics, Plant physiology, Molecular biology, Crop improvement, Salinity tolerance in tomato plants, Wild relatives of tomato, Galapagos tomatoes

PhD Students

Lina Ceceres Leal

PhD Student

Dayana Tleubayeva

PhD Student

Yao Tian

PhD Student

Yunchuan Wang

PhD Student

Hafiz Farooq

PhD Student

Research Group Staff

Nikoleta Kocakova

Project Coordinator

Oleksandr Bershadskyi

Lab/Field Technician

Hanna Cherviakouskaya

Research Specialist

Bhagya Girjia

Lab Support Technician

Gabriele Fiene

Research Specialist

Noha O. Saber

Lab Technician